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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think of intensive parenting more as the effort to have total emotional control over yourself so you are always calm and supportive with your child: "Larla, when you hit me, I feel bad. What can we do to help you have gentle hands?" Rather than "OMG, why would you just hit me in the face! Go to your room!" And[b], jumping up to meet the needs of kids first, so leaving the table and your own plate to get Hester more sliced strawberries rather than saying, "I'm eating right now, but you can get the strawberries or I'll get them when I finish my food"[/b]

The above examples are for elementary aged kids. I feel like I do less of the above than other parents I know, but I cater to my kid more than my parents did, and I was much more independent and capable than my child is at the same age. In terms of activities, my kid does more than I did, but there is also just more offered now than 30 or 40 years ago. Kids are bigger business for better and for worse.[/quote]

A Christmas Story suggests this has been the lot of mothers since the 1930s.    :lol:

“My mother had not had a meal for herself in 15 years.”[/quote]

That movie was made in the 1980s and was about the 1950s. [/quote]

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